Alison Flood

Jodi Brett is beautiful, rich and intelligent. A psychotherapist, she is also, as A.S.A. Harrison’s debut opens, “deeply unaware that her life is now peaking … that a few short months are all it will take to make a killer of her.” Because her ...

‘Joyland” comes with all the horror trappings for which Stephen King is known: a sinister carnival, a grisly unsolved murder, a haunted ride. JOYLAND, by Stephen King. Titan, 2013, 283 pp., $12.95 (paperback) “Horror House was a dark ride, but when it was in ...

THE NECESSARY DEATH OF LEWIS WINTER, by Malcolm Mackay. Mantle, 2013, 256 pp., ￡14.99 (hardcover) ‘It’s easy to kill a man,” you’re told by your omniscient narrator (more on the second person later). “It’s hard to kill a man well. People who do it ...